At 18, I Fought to Keep My 7 Siblings Together — Then One Photo Exposed the Truth About Our Parents

and she was not unkind. I want to be clear about that — she was not a villain, she was a person doing a difficult job with a system that was not designed for situations like ours, and she sat at our kitchen table with a thick folder in front of her and explained things to me in the careful, measured tone of someone who has delivered this kind of news continue reading …